| SES # | TOPICS | DUE DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Rome's City-state Empire | |
| 2 | The Constitution of the Roman Republic | |
| 3 | Impact of Empire: The Elite and the Peasant-soldier | |
| 4 | Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus | Short paper option 1 due |
| 5 | The Gracchi as Watershed | |
| 6 | Marius the 'New Man': Sallust's Jugurthine War | Short paper option 2 due |
| 7 | Marius, the Army, and the Politics of Land | |
| 8 | The Social War and the Unification of Italy | |
| 9 | Civil War I: Marius and Sulla | Short paper option 3 due |
| 10 | The Dictatorship of Sulla | |
| 11 | Pompey and the Special Command | |
| 12 | Cicero Saves the Republic: The Conspiracy of Catiline | |
| 13 | The Three-headed Monster: Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar | Short paper option 4 due |
| 14 | Caesar's Conquest of Gaul | |
| 15 | The Urban Plebs and Publius Clodius | |
| 16 | Pompey the Great | |
| 17 | Civil War II: Crossing the Rubicon | Topic proposal and outline for research paper due |
| 18 | The Roman Revolution | |
| 19 | Opposing Caesar: Cato & Marcellus | |
| 20 | Plutarch's Caesar | |
| 21 | The Ides of March | |
| 22 | The Villain of the Piece: Marc Antony | Research paper due |
| 23 | Civil War III: Antony and Octavian | |
| 24 | The Emergence of the Augustan Principate | |
| 25 | Fall of the Republic: Revolution, Crisis, Transformation | |
| 26 | Conclusion | Revised research paper due |